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Qatar will participate in the 14th session of the Executive Bureau of the Arab Ministerial Council on Tourism (AMCT), which begins today in Cairo, Egypt. |
The official Qatari delegation to the three-day event will be led by Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA).
Other members of the Executive Bureau include Kuwait, Oman, Palestine, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, and Egypt.The participants will discuss several issues including a study made by QTA on the criteria and bases of selecting observers in meetings of the Arab Ministerial Council on Tourism.
They will also tackle a report by a sub-committee following up the implementation and development of the Arab tourism strategy.
Another topic will be the nominations for the Council’s quality awards for tourism training colleges.
They will also discuss a working paper from the Arab Tourism Organisation (ATO) on the new criteria of a quality award for touristic restaurants.
Participation in such meetings reflects QTA’s willingness to strengthen Qatar’s role in common Arab action in the field of tourism and to activate QTA’s membership in the Arab League’s Ministerial Council.
The meeting will be attended by the Arab tourism ministers who are state members of the AMCT, ATO, UN World Tourism Organisation, Arab Tourism Writers Union, Arab Academy for Science and Technology as well as the Technical Secretariat of the Arab League.
